Services
Inspection Services
Five ways to put radiometric thermal to work — every flight pairs calibrated temperature data with high-resolution visual evidence and a report you can act on.
Service 01
Roof Moisture Surveys
Water that gets under a roof membrane doesn’t announce itself — it soaks the insulation and spreads quietly until the ceiling stains appear. After sunset, wet insulation releases the day’s heat more slowly than dry material, and a radiometric thermal scan maps exactly where the moisture sits. Residential or commercial, no core samples, no destructive testing — repair the wet sections instead of replacing the whole roof.
What we inspect
- Flat and low-slope commercial roofs — TPO, EPDM, modified bitumen, built-up
- Residential shingle, metal, and tile roofs
- Seams, flashings, penetrations, HVAC curbs, and drains
- Roofs after storms or hail events, and before purchase or warranty expiration
What thermal reveals
- Subsurface moisture intrusion invisible from the surface
- The extent of wet, saturated insulation — mapped section by section
- Membrane defects: failed seams, blisters, and punctures
- Leak paths traced from the interior stain back to the actual entry point
What you get: a marked-up moisture map of the roof with radiometric thermal stills, calibrated temperature readings, matching visual photos, and the precise location of every suspect area — evidence your roofer or insurer can act on directly.
Service 02
Electrical & Substation Thermography
Electrical failures rarely come out of nowhere — a loose or corroded connection runs hot under load long before it fails. We scan energized equipment from a safe standoff distance while it carries normal load, using long-range zoom optics and a laser rangefinder to document anomalies without an outage, a ladder, or anyone inside the approach boundary.
What we inspect
- Substations: transformers, bushings, switchgear, and bus connections
- Distribution equipment, lines, and pole-top hardware
- Splices, lugs, terminations, and other bolted or crimped connections
- Facility electrical infrastructure under normal operating load
What thermal reveals
- Load-based hotspots at loose, corroded, or failing connections
- Temperature differences between phases that point to imbalance or overload
- Components trending hotter than identical neighbors under the same load
- Developing faults caught while a planned repair is still an option
What you get: a prioritized anomaly list with calibrated temperature readings and phase-to-phase comparisons, each finding paired with a high-zoom visual photo and exact location — ready for your electrical contractor or utility maintenance planner.
Service 03
Building Envelope & Energy Audits
In the Valley’s heat, every gap in a building’s envelope is money leaking out through the AC bill. A whole-building thermal scan shows where conditioned air escapes and outside heat pours in — turning a vague “this building runs hot” into a specific list of fixable defects.
What we inspect
- Exterior walls, roofs, and attic planes — residential and commercial
- Window and door perimeters, frames, and seals
- Ductwork routes and HVAC equipment connections
- Additions, remodels, and new construction — scanned before drywall goes up, heading off sign-off disputes
What thermal reveals
- Insulation voids, settled batts, and missed bays inside finished walls
- Air leakage paths around penetrations, plates, and framing joints
- HVAC and duct losses dumping conditioned air where it doesn’t belong
- Failed window and door sealing, and thermal bridging through the structure
What you get: an elevation-by-elevation envelope report with annotated thermal images, temperature readings, and a prioritized list of sealing and insulation fixes — sized so you can tackle the worst offenders first.
Service 04
Solar Panel Inspections
A failing cell looks identical to a healthy one in visible light — but in infrared it glows. One flight sweeps an entire PV array and grades it panel by panel, catching production losses that inverter data alone can’t localize. Ideal at commissioning, before a warranty window closes, or any time output dips below expectations.
What we inspect
- Rooftop arrays — residential and commercial
- Ground-mount and carport installations
- New systems at commissioning, before final sign-off
- Underperforming arrays where warranty claims need documented evidence
What thermal reveals
- Hotspots and overheating cells before they damage the module
- Cell and string failures — including whole strings sitting offline
- Bypass diode faults with their telltale one-third-panel signature
- Soiling and shading patterns, distinguished from genuine hardware defects
What you get: a panel-level anomaly report — each finding classified, temperature-verified, paired with a zoomed visual photo, and located on an array layout so your installer or O&M team knows exactly which modules to pull.
Service 05
Custom & Industrial
Plenty of jobs don’t fit a neat category — a motor that keeps tripping, a tank farm to survey, a field with irrigation trouble, an agency that needs eyes on a site. If the problem involves heat, height, or hard-to-reach equipment, tell us what you’re trying to learn and we’ll scope a mission around it.
What we inspect
- Motors, bearings, pumps, and rotating mechanical systems
- Tanks, stacks, and elevated process equipment
- Agricultural operations — fields, irrigation coverage, and equipment
- Custom missions for agencies, municipalities, and project teams — mapping, progress documentation, or anything thermal or aerial
What thermal reveals
- Friction heat in bearings and motors trending toward failure
- Liquid levels in tanks read from outside, via thermal contrast
- Heat patterns on stacks and process equipment that flag abnormal operation
- Temperature variation across fields and irrigation zones
What you get: a deliverable scoped to the mission — annotated thermal and visual imagery, calibrated temperature readings, and a plain-English summary of findings, in whatever format your team needs to act.
Next step
Not sure which inspection you need?
Describe the symptom — a leak, a hot breaker, a production dip, a site you need documented — and we’ll recommend the right scan and send a flat quote, usually within one business day.